Healthleaders Preliminary federal data from June 2024 shows healthcare job creation lagging behind other sectors, furthering the ongoing labor shortage across the industry. A recent article from Healthleaders reports that healthcare grew 49,000 jobs in June, down from the average of 64,000 jobs over the past year, with the majority of these healthcare jobs (22,000) coming from hospitals and ambulatory …
Digital Strategies for Building Healthcare Resilience
News-Medical Global healthcare systems have faced numerous and unprecedented challenges in the wake of COVID-19 and rapidly changing market conditions. For organizations throughout the industry, rising costs and resource shortages have meant a growing need for agility and resilience. A recent article from News-Medical provides tips for building this type of resiliency through powerful digital technology, from investing in telehealth …
The Need for Effective Hospital HR Management
The value of human resource management is often overlooked by many healthcare firms. However, the effect of a properly managed department can have a tremendous impact on the overall health and performance of the facility. Investing in a hospital HR management system is one of the best ways to increase productivity and enhance overall administration. If you are an acting hospital HR manager, here …
Hospital HR: How To Avoid A HIPAA Violation As A Hospital Employee
In a fast paced environment, like that of a hospital emergency room, it is easy to forget to protect a patient’s privacy. By shattering this sacred trust between medical personnel and their clientele, many of these employees can lose both their license for practice and/or pay fines of thousands of dollars. One of the most crucial aspects of hospital HR …
Why Epic Systems Might Be Perfect For You
Present day healthcare is moving from the traditional paper medical charts to a digital format. Epic Systems provides electronic record systems. Epic’s health care software is used at thousands of health clinics and hospitals all over the United States. In addition to storing electronic health records for more than half of all Americans, Epic applications offer: Registration and Scheduling Billing …
Pre-Admission Procedures Improve Hospital Finances
Pre-admission procedures gives a hospital its first opportunity to positively impact hospital financial management. Pre-admission Affects Hospital and Patient Resources From the hospital’s point of view, pre-admission interaction presents the best occasion to schedule hospital resources appropriately in advance. The threshold question from the patient’s perspective is whether the anticipated health care is necessary. Not only is that something that …
5 Things to Know About Hospital HR
When most people think hospital HR, they may think it is the simple task of handling the relations between doctors. If only it were that simple! Hospitals are made up of so many different types of employees: doctors, physicians assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, administrative staff, house keeping staff, just to name a few. A human resources representative at a hospital has …
Affordable Care Act Reporting and PeopleSoft HCM
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) came with some new reporting requirements for employers with over 50 employees. These new forms took effect in the 2015 tax year. This has left the HR departments in many medium and large businesses scrambling to learn the new requirements and complete the forms. Form 1095-C must be sent to all full-time employees eligible for …
How PeopleSoft ERP Benefits the Medical Field
ERP (or Enterprise Resource Planning) software is an important component in the medical field. There are many companies who specialize in ERP software, with PeopleSoft being one of the most well-known and utilized. ERP software is used to handle hospital reception management, patient registration, billing, and can even be used to process and store medical records. No longer will receptionists …
Why Rutgers University is Looking to the Cloud
Rutgers, New Jersey’s State University has recently announced that it will be implementing several of Oracle’s Cloud Applications. The applications will help in a variety of areas in the university. They are easily scaled to fit various departments. We have seen more universities and hospitals turn to Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management as features continue to expand with cloud services. Rutgers …
